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epylar··on A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)
That is what externality means -- "a side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved." (unless this person is affecting the cost somehow as a result of this dislike)

In a sense, economics is entirely about what people like and dislike.

epylar··on What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
I've worked with at least a dozen people with master's degrees who learned just enough git to get by and then went learned helplessness on anything further. I don't understand this behavior.
epylar··on Have Disneyland fans finally reached their limit?
3) build more parks?
epylar··on Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
Climate is defined as long term averages of weather, so a single location can have a climate that's different from another location.
epylar··on GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
It would be trivial to post every SSN online. There's maximum one billion numbers fitting that format. Store each number in 30 bits, that's about 3600 MiB of data.
epylar··on Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution
This case seems to be more about the 4th amendment.
epylar··on Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
When I was poor I carried groceries on public transport using a large rolling suitcase on wheels. Worked pretty well and would not have been a problem with paper bags.
epylar··on A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich Are Winning
It's worth noting that 24 percent of Americans are under 18 and 15 percent are over 65. :)
epylar··on ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
Well, it seems unlikely that you forgot your professional skills in that time.. good luck!
epylar··on ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
Given "everyone I know agrees I'm a different person now," it is important to know when the felony was in relation to the 10 years of experience.
epylar··on The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women
Could you expand on the intermittent reinforcement concept in the context of an interpersonal relationship? I think it might help me.
epylar··on GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks
I see the CB3-131 is on the GalliumOS hardware compatibility list (https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility) now, under Intel Bay Trail, and supposedly works with ChromeOS as a dual boot option. However, the installation guide (https://wiki.galliumos.org/Installing) links to https://wiki.galliumos.org/Installing/Preparing as a first step, which says "On Bay Trail Chromebooks, you will have to flash your firmware. Luckily, John Lewis' script makes it a very straight forward process. Unfortuantely, you'll have to open up your Chromebook. Also note that after completing this process, you will no longer be able to run Chrome OS on your Chromebook, so no dualbooting for this one I'm afraid."

This contradicts the entry in the HCL. Is this true? Were you able to get your CB3-131 to dual boot?

epylar··on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux
That link talks about AFS, not ZFS.
epylar··on A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
At which point they could go on basic income.
epylar··on The web feels slower and more broken each day
I'm interested in rightly adjusting my content filters. How could I do this?
epylar··on The Wrong Kind of Paranoia
> The caller deserves whatever woes befall them.

Why?

epylar··on In Defense of Floppy Disks: The Vocabulary of the Interface
It's the tape inside a cassette. Like the old answering machines.
epylar··on Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
I see email spoofing being a problem with this.
epylar··on Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption
They've been accepting orders for 7-8 months and almost always state they'll ship 'any day now'.
epylar··on PaperCoin - paper offline Bitcoin wallets
How is this randomized? I notice the generating javascript is sent in the clear (HTTP).
epylar··on Screw live chat, I'm calling customer service
Amazon's EC2 service's most expensive data transfer to-internet option is 12 cents per gigabyte. So at most $1 to give a customer a direct download of a product with no marginal cost that he paid hundreds of dollars for. I think it would be reasonable to expect a small company to do this too.
epylar··on Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0
I'm running Chrome 10.0.648.134 and it got 100/100 with a fast, smooth animation and pixel-perfect comparison to the reference encoding.
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